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🔹 How to PUNISH Bg5 Pin on Your Knight? [Common Opening Mistake] - • How to PUNISH Bg5 Pin ...
In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov will teach you how to deal with the annoying pins on your knights when your opponents play Bg4 or Bg5. This is one of the most common chess opening mistakes that amateurs make. One should know how to deal with or punish this pin.
Very often, chess players feel uncomfortable with this pin and they don't know how to deal with it. As a result, they play passively by putting their bishop behind the knight to unpin it, such as Be2 or Be7, which is the worst reaction to an opponent trying to pin your knight.
There are a lot more aggressive and better ways to deal with this annoying pin. You will learn 4 ways how to punish this Bg5/Bg4 pin on your knight. You will learn how to tactically punish it by checkmating your opponent's king or winning the bishop that pins, and also strategically punishing your opponent by damaging their pawn structures or exploiting their queenside.
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00:00 How to deal with Bg5 pin on your knight?
00:30 Tactically & Strategically punishing the pin
01:04 1.1) Put your bishop to a more active square
01:48 1.2) Ne5 before Bxf7, checkmating the king
02:04 2) Attacking Bg5 pin before you castle
04:30 3.1) Hunting (trapping) the bishop that pins
05:47 3.2) If opponent creates an escape square for the bishop
06:32 4) Exploiting the absence of bishop on the queenside
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